The Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) is excited for the upcoming explorASIAN Festival happening May 1 – May 31, 2022. We want to extend our hand to both loyal and new partners and collaborators. Join us in 2022 by including your Asian Heritage Month event(s) in our 2022 Festival Program. To submit your event(s), … Continue reading →

The Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society would like to congratulate Fiona Tinwei Lam for being appointed Vancouver’s sixth Poet Laureate, 2022-2024. She has a deep and long-standing connection to the community including her support to VAHMS and participation in various panels and exhibitions during explorASIAN. Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of Intimate Distances (finalist for the … Continue reading →

VAHMS had the honour to be a part of the audience for City Opera Vancouver’s Chinatown Opera. The Opera by Madeleine Tien and Alice Ping Yee Ho features the story of two close friends and the importance of family, identity, and perseverance. The story also reflects on the significance of Vancouver’s Chinatown and its history … Continue reading →

Artist Statement Illustration to me has always been the breath-of-fresh-air version of the reality we live in, or perhaps an imaginative world, where hearts are allowed to freely and truthfully converse with one another through unique visual expressions, without neither self-inflicted or societal-imposed constraints.   I often like to contextualize the subjects of my illustrations within … Continue reading →